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When creating a device for such a personal ritual as applying make-up, anyone would think that the robots would favour precision and speed, but this was - hilariously- not the case.

The beginning of the video shows the designers setting up and creating the machine's frame which includes two magnified mirrors.

Each device is fitted with chin rests in order to let the user know where to position their faces.

Another girl has felt the wrath of the machine, which has dealt her face many random strokes of eyeliner

A gallery visitor rests her head on the chin rest, expecting eyeliner to be expertly applied

The eyeliner is fixed to a robotic arm, which moves the brush in a movement intended to mimic that of a hand, against the backdrop of a mirror with the motto, 'with determined brush strokes the cosmetic ritual takes its course' inscribed into the glass.

The lipstick wand is secured to a crank which rotates in small circles.

Once each area has been completed, a mask threaded with LEDs lights up in the corresponding part of the female face.

The video shows how it's only when visitors begin trying out the make-up robot that they realise precision is not the machine's greatest attribute.

Each woman rests their chin on the chin-rest and the eyeliner brush is seen swiping wildly, leaving them with smears of kohl on their foreheads, eyelids and along the bridge of their nose.

At one point the robot actually smears the eyeliner directly into a unsuspecting girl's eye.

The lipstick robot is slightly more successful than the eyeliner robot, as the user can control how much lipstick is applied

Next a woman trials the lipstick wand but the speedy circular rotation of the lipstick isn't well aligned to the natural shape of a pair of lips.

The user is left with a circular smudge over her lips and chin.

But Pindeus and Pichlbauer say the robots weren't intended to revolutionise make-up, explaining: 'We wanted to explore the relationship between humans and machines.'

The designers found the results of the art project were differed from their initial expectations.

'We expected the outcome to be threatening and a little creepy but instead we discovered a very affectionate side in our robot.

One woman is waiting for her eyeliner to be applied, with her face directly aligned with the brush

She gets a shock when the eyeliner brush swipes directly into her eye

'The interaction with our machine made people smile. Its tireless spins, the way it didn’t quite succeed, it seemed to have its own ideas of what looked good in a human face.'

On their Tumblr page, the pair explain the inspiration for the project: 'Without us paying much attention, many processes and rituals in our lives have been taken over by machines which are said to be cold and unemotional.'

The designers added: 'Our machines, however, have their own will, their own ideals. We want to put users in the beauty care of robots, to experience what it feels like when delicate decisions that are usually made by themselves are now determined by machines.'

The third component of the make-up robots is a light mask (pictured), which is meant to illuminate parts of the face it is satisfied with